ADOPTION AND INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL INTEGRATED CARE PROGRAMME FOR DIABETES: A REALIST EVALUATION

Adoption and Initial Implementation of a National Integrated Care Programme for Diabetes: A Realist Evaluation

Background: The implementation of models of integrated care for chronic conditions is not well understood.We conducted a realist evaluation to determine how and why the implementation of the National Diabetes Programme in Ireland worked (or not).Methods: Documentary analysis and qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of national stakeholder

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Prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis in solitary papillary thyroid carcinoma based on ultrasound radiomics analysis

ObjectiveTo assess the utility of predictive models using ultrasound radiomic features to predict cervical lymph node metastasis (CLNM) in solitary papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients.MethodsA total of 570 PTC patients were included (456 patients in the training set and 114 in the testing set).Pyradiomics was employed to extract radiomic fea

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